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We called Costco's membership and warehouse line with general questions and no member number. Here is the touch-tone menu, how long it took to reach a person, what the representative said about prices, refunds, non-members and scams, where Costco's own website says something different, and the full 19 minute recording.

We called AT&T wireless customer service four times for this guide. Two calls never got past the voice system, one hit our own time limit on hold, and one reached a live representative after 44 minutes. Here are the recordings, the route that worked, and what the representative said.

We called 1-800-WALMART with general questions for this guide. An AI agent answers first; asking twice for a representative got us a live person. Here's what the rep and the AI each said about hours and refunds, and the full 6 minute recording.

A real call to Irvine Spectrum clarified a family booking, the evening age cutoff and how eight players would split across challenge rooms.

The assistant waited through the reservation queue, accepted 7:15 PM instead of 7:00 PM and got an explicit table confirmation.

We called DoorDash's support line to ask about missing items and refunds. Here are the exact key presses, the words that got us transferred, what the live representative said, and the full recording.

We called Priceline's customer service number with no booking. An automated assistant, then a trip number menu, then a 22 minute hold. Here is every prompt, what the representative said about changes, cancellations and non-refundable refunds, and the full 26 minute recording.

Scheduled calls, your own caller ID, live listening, more international calling, and improvements shaped by your first calls.

We called PayPal's customer service line without logging in. Here is how the AI assistant handled us, the menu that ended in a transfer, what the representative said about disputes, holds and verification, and the full 8 minute recording.

We called Hulu support to ask how cancelling works. Here is where Hulu lists its number, the phone menu, what a live representative said about cancelling, refunds and pausing, and the full 3 minute recording.

Windstream is now Kinetic. We called three times. Two calls stopped at an account number prompt. The third, on the sales line with option 1, reached a live rep in under a minute. Here are all three recordings, the menus, and what the rep said.

We went back through 100 customer service calls we've published to 59 companies, and timed how long each one took to reach a live person. Here is what got through, what didn't, where AI assistants and account number prompts stopped us, and the full dataset as a CSV.